The complete online text of The World Decision by Robert Herrick (novelist).

Robert Herrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a genteelly impoverished family that traced its New England lineage back to 1636. Schooled locally, he also graduated from Harvard, where he benefited from a recent interest in encouraging creative...

Although he is largely forgotten today, Robert Herrick was regarded in the decade before World War I as an important inheritor of the realist tradition and a controversial critic of American materialism. Herrick was one of a number of middle-class, gener...

Herrick's three collections of short stories written over a thirty-year period from 1895 to 1925 do not alter the reputation established for him by his seventeen novels and five novellas. He is considered a brilliant, minor realist who fused Theodore Dre...

WASHINGTON - The defense secretary arrives at work in the dark and doesn't leave the office until it's dark again. He is rethinking national security questions top to bottom. He has control of the biggest bureaucracy, biggest military, and biggest headache in the nation....

Last week's Supreme Court decision settled one matter related to the question of whether states can continue to prohibit direct-to- consumer wine sales, but left a host of others up in the air. States that permit wineries to ship bottles directly to consumers...